Recent Examples on the WebIn the nests that the team monitored, parrotlets killed or wounded nestlings and eggs at 256 sites.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 May 2024 The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024 Bags also pack a clear vitrine, nestling one of the many ear sculptures.—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023 Arrange the cloches around the garland, filling their base with moss and nestling a couple of mushroom or animal decorations in the moss.—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2023 Scrub-jays are resident birds here, but, like many species, seem more abundant after nesting season since they are not constrained to taking care of nestlings and can expand their range in search of food.—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023 For birds nesting in agricultural spaces with little tree cover or shade, the probability of successfully raising at least one nestling dropped by 46% when temperatures were abnormally high.—Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023 The heron was one of several brought to Phoenix as nestlings from the rookery at Thames Street Park in Fells Point.—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023 Biologists used rock climbing gear to ascend the cliffs and reach the two nestlings.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
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